"The lazy Christian has his mouth full of……" — Thomas Brooks
"The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts."
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95 Quotes by Thomas Brooks
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Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have…
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The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is…
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Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort.…
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Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is…
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
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God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it…
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God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in…
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Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit…
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
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When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp…
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Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant,…
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
— Robert Ballard
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
— Annie Besant
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
— William Blake
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
— Allen Boyd
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
— Les Brown
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